B1 · 5 minutes · History

Abraham Lincoln: Martyr

Abraham Lincoln grew up poor and led the United States through the Civil War. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a biography with abstract nouns.

Words to know

formal: Official; done in a school or system.
opposition: Being against something.
slavery: The system of owning people and forcing them to work.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 93% of the words in this lesson.

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Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Text and audio from “Abraham Lincoln: Martyr”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2023-06-10. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this story for Learning English. Public domain.

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